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Habitat Restoration

Middle School Students worked together to plan, plant, and tend our pollinator garden. Audrey Hillman, a local Master Gardener, helped us decide what to plant. She donated plants from her own garden: Wild Bee Balm, Anise Hyssop, Giant Yellow Hyssop, and Sedum.The garden has not only been a refuge for pollinators, it has also allowed students in all grades to learn about the importance of pollinators.pollinator_garden_-email.pdf​​

7th grade students visiting the garden to classify and count pollinators (September, 2017)

Our Monarch Waystation

Mother Seton School is proud to be a monarch waystation. Second-grade teachers have used the Waystation as a way to teach the students about natural life cycles and to reinforce the importance of taking care of our environment. One of our goals is to create an outdoor learning space for student instruction with benches near the Waystation and MSS gardens. Students in the second-grade classes annually watch the complete life cycle of Monarch butterflies. Mrs. Mullineaux gathers Monarch eggs from milkweed plants and then keeps them in a butterfly cage in the classroom. Students journal about the Monarch lifecycle by watching the eggs turn into caterpillars, and then form into a chrysalis. After 10 to 14 days, butterflies emerge and are then released outside by the class.

Bug HotelOur entire school community worked to create a habitat for our insect friends. We repurposed an old bookcase that was going to be discarded and each class filled a nook.

Kindergarten students filling their nook, Oct, 2017

Kindergarten students filling their nook, Oct 2017

Pre-K students filling their nook, Oct 2017

Lifesavers of the Chesapeake BayFourth grade students attend this environmental education program hosted by the Renfrew Institute for Cultural and Environmental Studies that strives to "promote a greater understanding of our relationship to one of the world's richest estuaries, the Chesapeake Bay". Shown below are students planting trees for the riparian buffer for the Antietam creek which flows to the Potomac and eventually to the Bay. (May, 2016)